✅ Touch ID support for macOS

Feature Requests Password Manager
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This is the one thing I like more about LastPass’ Mac app.

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Taking realy long to adopt touch id, staying with 1Password because cheap price means slow adoption.

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this would be a super useful feature. having to enter a pw all the time is very time consuming.

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This is my #1 thing I would like to see added it would save so much time

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Is there a time frame for enabling touch id support. I want to move from lastpass due to better equivalent domain support in bitwarden. I’ll even buy the premium version once touch id is supported.

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Likewise. TouchID has been standard on Macbook Pros for over three years now, this seems like it should be extremely high priority.

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Any update on this?

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I am also waiting for this feature. This would improve the user experience so much!

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I finally switched to bitwarden premium.
It’s great having TouchID on iOS - so please bring it to macOS as well!
Thanks

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Can’t wait for this feature!

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Much MUCH needed functionality!

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+1, much needed feature, especially in the iPad

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+1 This is the single feature that I need for the “wife approval factor”.

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Electron has native support for Touch ID since 6.x that was released in July.
Is it plan to add this to Bitwarden Mac client?

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Anyone working on this already? I can spend some time investigating Touch ID support, but don’t want to duplicate effort.

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@Billy_Lo
From the lack of activity in this thread I think it’s safe to assume that there’s nobody working on this. So if you would be willing to give it a shot, that would be awesome. :pray:

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It seems like you are definitely not going to duplicating the effort. Can you make it? Do you need any help?

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Sure. Let me get started. Will reach out using this thread when I have a better sense on the changes needed and testing required.

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Looked into the code of the Mac client, browser client and chrome extension a bit. Unfortunately, Touch ID on Mac will take quite a bit of work.

  1. Mac client: it’s still based on Electron 5.0. Touch ID support is only available from 6.0. No backport yet.

  2. Browser client / Chrome Extension: Chrome does support WebAuthn with Mac Touch ID (Safari doesn’t yet). I will need to add a WebAuthn server to handle registration of the TouchID as system authenticator and add a button to the web app to call WebAuthn API to authenticate. It’s doable, but I won’t have sufficient cycles to do all the work; and it will be limited to be usable on Chrome/Mac.

Sorry guys.

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Good news. Electron was updated to version 6.1.7 3 days ago :slight_smile:

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